Guerrilla Gardening

The marketplace becomes a playground for stealth gardening

Implications - With urbanization contributing to the loss of lush, green landscapes and gardens, guerrilla gardening seems to be one attempt at a solution. Those—be it product designers, activists or average consumers—yearning for greener pastures (literally) are turning to stealth ways to infuse everyday products and the urban environment with more flowers, plants and the like. Everything from greeting cards and art projects to product packaging and asphalt have been struck with someone’s green thumb, proving that eco-friendly elements really can be incorporated into anything in the marketplace.

These amazing seed bombs are the perfecting gardening tool for those who need some gardening incentive. The grenade seed bomb actually explodes in slow motion and is made up of compost, mud and seeds which… [More]

If this student's packaging project makes it to the market, I have no doubt that these Vegetable Labels by Ben Huttly will succeed so far as to ruin farmers' businesses.
The intention of this graphic… [More]

Potholes are a problem for many cities, but perhaps artist and graphic design student Pete Dungey has discovered the solution: guerrilla asphalt gardens.
Dungey has begun covering potholes with soil… [More]

Designed by PUSHAK, 'Moss Your City' is located in London, England. Although not an actual maze, as my title suggests, you could certainly get lost in this installation. The main purpose of 'Moss Your… [More]

Every year, millions of greeting cards find their way into landfills, but these Botanical Paperworks cards sidestep that unfortunate fact by being plantable once they’ve served their original purpose.… [More]

Vanessa Harden has designed a sneaky way to infuse the world with more greenery in her Subversive Gardener concept. The project consists of seed-filled pills and several everyday objects redesigned to… [More]